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School-Aged Children/ Improvers

Improvers

This level is suitable for children who:

  • can swim 8-10  meters Front Crawl and Backstroke (strokes should be recognisable but not fully polished)
  • is able to Push off from the pool side & Glide both on front and back and kick (flutter kicks) strongly at least for 8 meters.
  • can jump and/or dive safely (either from sitting or standing position) and confidently in the deep end of the pool.
  • can pick objects from bottom of the pool confidently.
  • are happy to travel at least 8-10 meters in the deep end of the pool (where they cannot touch the bottom of the pool) without any floatation objects.

Improvers+

This level is suitable for children who:

  • Can swim 25 meters Front Crawl and Backstroke with good technique as well as performing Breaststroke and dolphin (butterfly) kicks.
  • Can dive safely as well as treading and sculling water for at least 30 seconds.
  • Can swim at least 50 meter continuously with recognisable swimming strokes (i.e, 25 meter of Front Crawl and 25 meter of Backstroke).

a child swimming backstroke

Advanced Level

This level is suitable For children who:

  • Can swim at least 25 meters Front Crawl, Backstroke and Breaststroke with very good techniques.
  • Can swim at least 100 meter continuously with recognisable swimming strokes (could be mixture of strokes).
  • Can swim 15-25 meters of  Butterfly.
  • Can dive with good technique in the deep end of the pool.
  • Can perform surface dives and pick objects up from the bottom of the pool in depth more than 2.00 m.
  • You can see what we mean by ‘Can swim at least 25 meters Front Crawl’ in this video.

 

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